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FAU Ranked by 'U.S. News & World Report' as Top Public School

By | September 9, 2019

U.S. News & World Report ranked FAU in its list of "Top Public Schools" in the nation for the first time in the university's history, landing at No.140 in the annual ranking of the nation's best universities.

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FAU Brain Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

By | September 6, 2019

The Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation (BBRF) awarded the prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to Adele Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., executive director of the FAU Brain Institute and a professor of biomedical science in FAU's Charles E....

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By | September 6, 2019

As part of her recent Ph.D. research, Chelsea Bennice studied how two different octopus species co-exist. She developed a 24-hour camera to monitor the animals under the Blue Heron Bridge at Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach, Fla., an area of the Lake Worth Lagoon, that is home to the two species...

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Examining Sleep Plasticity 

By | August 29, 2019

While sleep is almost universal across the animal kingdom, sleep architecture and amount vary drastically between species. Further, animals alter how much they sleep in response to their environments and food availability.  A Florida Atlantic University researcher and collaborators received...

Across the 45 nations the researchers studied, women were found 30 percent less likely than men to start business ventures, which suggests that deep-seated gender beliefs may play a role in informing women and men of their perceived ability to pursue entrepreneurship.

Why Women are Less Likely than Men to Start New Ventures

By | August 29, 2019

A new study by faculty at Florida Atlantic University and Eastern Michigan University explores the cultural factors that may explain why this gender gap exists and varies widely in countries around the world.

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'Dream Team' Awarded $1.1 Million for Blind Mexican Cavefish Research

By | August 29, 2019

FAU researchers have received a $1.1 million NSF grant to develop powerful transgenic tools and gene-editing technologies in the blind Mexican cavefish to significantly advance it as a research model system.

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Millennials, Think You're Digitally Better Than Us? Yes, Says Science

By | August 28, 2019

A study by FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science is one of the first to examine the information technology switching prowess phenomenon in the "Net Generation," revealing some surprising results.

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FAU Attracts Record Number of National Merit Scholars

By | August 28, 2019

Florida Atlantic University has welcomed a record number of National Merit Scholars for the fall 2019 semester.

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Scientist Lands $1.7 Million NIH Grant for Tissue Engineering Approach

By | August 27, 2019

A leading scientist in FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine has received a grant for a research project that offers hope for eye disease and regenerative medicine using a novel tissue engineering approach.

FAU PhD Project to Create First Online Comanche Dictionary

By | August 26, 2019

Ph.D. student Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner, D.M.A. (Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache descent), added to her research this summer at the Smithsonian.